WIRELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wireless mean? 

• WIRELESS (noun)
  The noun WIRELESS has 4 senses:

1. medium for communication

2. transmission by radio waves

3. an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals

4. a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves

  Familiarity information: WIRELESS used as a noun is uncommon.

• WIRELESS (adjective)
  The adjective WIRELESS has 1 sense:

1. having no wires

  Familiarity information: WIRELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIRELESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Medium for communication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

radio; radiocommunication; wireless

Hypernyms ("wireless" is a kind of...):

broadcasting (taking part in a radio or tv program)

Domain member category:

raise (establish radio communications with)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Transmission by radio waves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("wireless" is a kind of...):

telecom; telecommunication ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wireless"):

radiotelegraph; radiotelegraphy; wireless telegraphy (telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire)

radiotelephone; radiotelephony; wireless telephone (telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

radio; radio receiver; radio set; receiving set; tuner; wireless

Hypernyms ("wireless" is a kind of...):

receiver; receiving system (set that receives radio or tv signals)

Meronyms (parts of "wireless"):

detector (electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity)

demodulator; detector (rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave)

amplifier (electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wireless"):

clock radio (a radio that includes a clock that can be set to turn it on automatically)

crystal set (an early radio receiver using a crystal detector)

heterodyne receiver; superhet; superheterodyne receiver (a radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified)

push-button radio (a radio receiver that can be tuned by pressing buttons)

Holonyms ("wireless" is a part of...):

radio; wireless (a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves)

radio-gramophone; radio-phonograph (electronic equipment consisting of a combination of a radio receiver and a record player)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

radio; wireless

Hypernyms ("wireless" is a kind of...):

communication system (a system for communicating)

Meronyms (parts of "wireless"):

radio; radio receiver; radio set; receiving set; tuner; wireless (an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals)

radio transmitter (transmitter that is the part of a radio system that transmits signals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wireless"):

radiotelegraph; radiotelegraphy; wireless telegraph; wireless telegraphy (the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code))

• WIRELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no wires

Context example:

a wireless security system

Antonym:

wired (equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service)

 Context examples 

Communications problems between devices within a wireless system.

(Device Wireless Communication Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

Some people worry that wireless and cellular phones cause cancer.

(Electromagnetic Fields, NIH: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

Researchers are studying whether the electromagnetic fields from power lines, electrical appliances, and wireless and cellular telephones can cause cancer or other harmful health effects.

(Electromagnetic field, NCI Dictionary)

The research conducted by scientists at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) looked at the relationship between exposure to RF-EMF from wireless communication devices and memory performance in adolescents.

(Cell Phone Radiation Harmful for Memory, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Here we are going to measure this wireless phone and its base point.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Inserted using a catheter system, the sensor would allow wireless detection of blood flow.

(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)

Researchers are studying whether the EMFs from power lines, electrical appliances, and wireless and cellular telephones can cause cancer or other harmful health effects.

(EMF, NCI Dictionary)

The capsule contains a tiny wireless camera that travels through the digestive tract.

(Capsule endoscopy, NCI Dictionary)

It contains a wireless, programmable iontophoresis interface, which is placed on a hydrogel containing molecules that stimulate sweat.

(Diagnosing cystic fibrosis with wearable devices, NIH)

The pictures are sent to a small wireless receiver that is worn on the waist of the patient and are later viewed on a computer.

(Capsule endoscope, NCI Dictionary)